Wideband Amplifiers

ISBN-13: 9780387283401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 630 str.

Peter Staric; Erik Margan; P. Staric

Opis

With the exception of the tragedy on September 11, the year 2001 was relatively normal and uneventful: remember, this should have been the year of the Clarke s andKubrick s Space Odyssey, mission to Juiter; it should have been the year of the HAL-9000 computer. Today, the Personal Computer is as ubiquitous and omnipresent as was HAL on the Discovery spaceship. And the rate of technology development and market growth in electronics industry still follows the famous Moore Law, almost four decades after it has been first formulated: in 1965, Gordon Moore of Intel Corporation predicted the doubling of the number of transistors on a chip every 2 years, corrected to 18 months in 1967; at that time, the landing on the Moon was in full preparation. Curiously enough, today noone cares to go to the Moon again, let alone Jupiter. And, in spite of all the effort in digital engineering, we still do not have anything close to 0.1% of the HAL capacity (fortunately? ). Whilst there are many research labs striving to put artificial intelligence into a computer, there are also rumors that this has already happened (with Windows-95, of course )."

Recenzje

"Wideband Amplifiers by Peter Staric and Eric Margan is to my knowledge by far the best modern book about this topic and can be highly recommended to anyone who is engaged in the design of such amplifiers. It can be truly called a Standard Book, well worth to be included in the Springer catalogue. A substantial portion of the book contains knowledge only available within the very few companies which play a leading role in this field.

One strength of this book is its comprehensiveness: it is not necessary to refer to other books in order to derive benefits from it, the mathematics required to understand the main part are meticulously explained in its first chapters. The second part of the book deals with the standard peaking circuits and then introduces the socalled "T-Coil" which is essentially a complex transformer. The knowledge about these circuits is inversely proportional to their importance." (Dr.-Ing. Artur Seibt - Wien, Austria)

Spis treści

The Laplace Transform.- Inductive peaking circuits.- Wideband amplifier stages with semiconductor devices.- Cascading Amplifier Stages, Selection of Poles.- System synthesis and integration.- Computer algorithms for analysis and synthesis of amplifier-filter systems.- Algorithm application examples.